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Somalia intensifies crackdown on illicit Kenyan Khat

Miraa transportation from Meru to Nairobi

This file photo taken on January 24, 2011 shows a pick-up truck carrying khat from Meru, some 300 kilometres north of Nairobi.

Photo credit: Simon Maina | AFP

Miraa traders in Kenya and Somalia have gone back to the drawing board after Mogadishu intensified its crackdown on Kenyan khat.

This comes after 14 days within which the government was expected to facilitate reopening of the Somalia miraa market lapsed.